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UNDEMONSTRATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does undemonstrative mean?
• UNDEMONSTRATIVE (adjective)
The adjective UNDEMONSTRATIVE has 1 sense:
1. not given to open expression of emotion
Familiarity information: UNDEMONSTRATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not given to open expression of emotion
Similar:
restrained; reticent; unemotional (cool and formal in manner)
Also:
reserved (marked by self-restraint and reticence)
Antonym:
demonstrative (given to or marked by the open expression of emotion)
Context examples
First, he was evidently a valuable possession of the master's, and next, he was undemonstrative.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
"You shall," repeated Mary, in the tone of undemonstrative sincerity which seemed natural to her.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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